Governance

The court dismisses an environmental group's claims that the National Park Service (NPS) failed to comply with certain statutory mandates, deadlines, and management policies involving…

The court reverses and remands a lower court decision that a city's dewatering activities did not constitute a taking of homeowners' property. The court previously certified the issue to…

A court reverses a lower court decision denying animal activists' motion to strike state employees' workplace violence protective orders under the state's anti-SLAPP statute.…

The court dismisses a group of residents' claims challenging the Bureau of Indian Affairs' (BIA's) decision to take certain land into trust for the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi…

The court holds that a solid waste management district regulation requiring solid waste to be disposed at either in-district or out-of-state landfills, unless otherwise authorized, does not…

A court affirms a trial court ruling that a nonprofit organization failed to demonstrate that the manufacturers and distributors of plumbing parts discharged lead into a source of California…

A court holds that a lower court erred in denying a citizen group's petition challenging the California Department of Food and Agriculture's (DFA's) certification of a program for…

A court reverses a lower court decision enjoining a city's peafowl management program that allowed a minimum peafowl population on certain city-owned parkland and canyon property. Residents…

A court affirms a trial court judgment condemning three residential rental properties for redevelopment purposes in a quick take eminent domain proceeding. In quick take eminent domain proceedings…

The court dismisses an environmental group's petition for review of seven Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) orders concerning a natural gas pipeline extension from Virginia to North…